Trent Dalton’s Love Stories | Darwin

Name: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories | Darwin
Start: 2025-10-02T10:30:00+09:30
Location: AANT Centre - The Territory's Premier Live Entertainment Venue

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 10:30 am

UTC+09:30

Location

AANT Centre - The Territory's Premier Live Entertainment Venue | Darwin, NT

AANT Centre presents a Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Brisbane Festival production of Trent Dalton’s Love Stories
Supported by E3 Productions
Adapted for the stage by Tim McGarry
Additional writing and story by Trent Dalton and Fiona Franzmann
Directed by Sam Strong
Get ready to fall in love all over again. This restless city has a story to tell.
“I believe in touch. I believe in song. I believe she remembers him. I believe the perfect girl can always meet the perfect boy. I believe we are not alone in the universe.”
A father prepares himself for the day he lets go of his daughter’s hand. A young man breaks up with his girlfriend so they can both follow their dreams. A couple play nice in public to hide the fractures at home. A woman rebuilds herself along with a flood-devastated city. A working mum contemplates taking the photographs of her late husband down from the fridge. A grandmother dreams of seeing her grandson’s face. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: 'What is love?'
Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, bestselling author – and one of Australia's finest journalists – Trent Dalton spent two months in 2021 gathering stories on his sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter, on a prominent street corner in Brisbane’s CBD. Speaking to Australians from all walks of life, he asked them one simple thing: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'
What followed was Dalton’s unashamedly joyous collection of Love Stories, and the creative team behind the smash-hit page-to-stage adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe (director Sam Strong and writer Tim McGarry) reuniting to bring to life Dalton’s latest warm, wise, poignant, funny and moving story about love, in all its guises.
‘It dives into the chaos of love – the joy, the pain, the laughter, the heartbreak... sending you back to the streets feeling just a little more alive.’ THE GUARDIAN
‘In a time when we need joy more than ever, Love Stories lifts the spirit.’ ARTSHUB